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by rcbdev 374 days ago
The Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice has been on LibreOffice for many years now, with the Austrian Federal Computing Center developing extensions specifically for their use-cases.

This is a great trend. I wonder how long until Microsoft's Ballmer-type people fly into Munich again to commit corruption / lobbying.
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ahartmetz 374 days ago
License fees for a few thousand workplaces of Microsoft can pay for a lot of development on FOSS alternatives instead. There is very little overhead there.

Some things take a lot of work, but many changes that would be useful are pretty easy to make. Crash and bug and (some) performance fixes, time-saving automations and integrations with rough and / or minimal user interfaces and so on.

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trelane 374 days ago
What's more, you can pay for local dev! I imagine not sending money to the US and keeping it local is not a small consideration.
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EasyMark 374 days ago
That's true but I don't see them taking the "money saved" and sending it to openOffice for software improvement.
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